negativeliberty on 19/7/2010 at 11:18
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http://www.develop-online.net/news/35365/Rare-Controllers-have-become-convoluted)
Quote:
Develop 2010: Famed UK studio says Kinect will reduce technophobia
Khe Kinect development director at Rare believes the industry’s principal control mechanism – the joypad – has grown too complex and complicated for the wider market.
Speaking at the fifth annual Develop Conference in Brighton, Nick Burton said Joypads "have become convoluted, they have raised the bar to entry too high."
As an example of his claim, Burton recounted a time when he was playing a videogame with his daughter.
"So my daughter was asking what all the buttons did, and I told her just two were used. She just couldn’t get her head around the fact that the other buttons were redundant."
Touching on the issue of technophobia, Burton said that people unfamiliar with gaming are frightened by pressing the wrong button – fearing that it will have disastrous consequences.
Speaking in the same spirit as many Nintendo executives, Burton said the solution to this is motion control. Not just because of its intuitiveness, but because there is no wrong way of running on the spot and no incorrect way of swinging a bat.
"It removes the layer of scariness that a controller has," he said. "There are so many opportunities that can arise from that".
Rare is currently in the final stages of developing Kinect Sports for Microsoft, designed in the same style as Wii Sports.
Rare has sold some 100 million games since the studio formed 25 years ago.
So here's to all you technophobes out there: behold the future of gaming, according to Rare:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPWeqVMdEG0&feature=related)
Thank you,
focus group #MS1728485004-BNick Burton's daughter, for ushering in the
complete market saturation of crapnext gen.
But what do I know, Rare sold 100 million games, 0.00000012% of which I bought. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to set fire to my GoldenEye 007 cartridge.
Koki on 19/7/2010 at 11:26
I am writing this and not even using HALF of the keys on my keyboard. This is an outrage.
mothra on 19/7/2010 at 11:28
LOL
just 2 letters - capitalized is important - is all you need.
Malf on 19/7/2010 at 12:11
Company owned by Microsoft hails next Microsoft product as future of gaming.
henke on 19/7/2010 at 13:37
I was wondering what Rare was up to these days. If they're developing stuff for Kinetic that suddenly gives me hope that this thing might not just be a useless gimick after all. Maybe we'll actually get some decent games for it.
And relax people, Microsoft isn't going to round up your controllers and burn them, they're just looking to expand their userbase. Controllers certainly have become more convoluted. 20 years ago it was typically just a joystick with one button. If games are to ever rival movies/TV as entertainment for the masses there needs to be games that are easier to controll, and get into. They need to appeal even to the kids, and grandmas, and technophobes, and people who just can't be bothered figuring out what the different buttons do and getting the hand-eye coordination down.
242 on 19/7/2010 at 14:28
Quote:
Khe Kinect development director at Rare believes the industry's principal control mechanism - the joypad - has grown too complex and complicated for the wider market.
Definitely, I'm puzzled by huge number of buttons (16 ! including 4 directional ones) of the dualshock myself.
I hope this is our future:
Inline Image:
http://benheck.com/Games/Xbox360/3600/3600_hero.jpgBut without stick.
ZylonBane on 19/7/2010 at 14:43
Kinect: The Cure is Worse than the Disease
Buy one now!
242 on 19/7/2010 at 14:51
Much, MUCH harder and slower to type than with regular keyboard.
